Polish Cemetery & Memorial
Commonwealth War Grves Commission There are 83 Polish burials at Brookwood
![]() ![]() On 1st Sep 1939 the German battleship Schleswig Holstein while on an official visit to Poland moved down Port Canal and opened fire on Polish troop barracks in Westerplatte and thus fired the first shots of World War Two. This aggression followed a German staged attack on its own radio station in Gleiwitz. This was blamed on the Poles. This deception was one of several used by Germany to justify the invasion of Poland which initiated WW2. The Polish Provisional Government was set up in London by General Wladyslaw Sikorski when Poland was annexed. During the invasion of the Soviet Union by the Axis Powers in June 1940 Sikorski asked Stalin to release thousands of Polish officers captured by the Soviets in 1939. Their bodies were later found at Katyn in Russia with those of intellectuals and civilian POWs. In all the Soviets murdered an estimated 21,000 Polish victims on orders signed by the entire Russian Politburo and Stalin. All © WyrdLight McCallum Photography 2021 Contact Antony |